Marion steam shovel dredge of the Oroville Gold Dredging Company on the
Feather River near Oroville. Tailings in the background.

Photo ID:

A0394D

Mine:

Kendon Pit

County:

Mono

Photographer/Source:

Whitney, C.W.

Date:

1930

Description:

Woman using a rocker at a placer mine.

Photo ID:

A5188

Mine:

Empire

County:

Nevada

Photographer/Source:

G.W. Starr Collection

Date:

1900

Description:

Typical Cornish miner.

Photo ID:

C3504

Mine:

Empire

County:

Nevada

Photographer/Source:

G.W. Starr Collection

Date:

1900

Description:

Miners underground, advancing the drift.

Photo ID:

A7195

Mine:

North Bloomfield (Malakoff Diggins)

County:

Nevada

Photographer/Source:

Watkins Photo-Bancroft Neg. #8111

Date:

1890

Description:

Piping four streams from monitors (giants), with aggregate discharge of
2,500 miner's inches at a hydraulic mine. Material is washed through bedrock cuts to the
sluices which are not visible. Previously published in Annual Report of the State
Mineralogist, v 10, p. 122.

Photo ID:

A3282

Mine:

Auburn Ravine

County:

Placer

Photographer/Source:

Courtesy of California State Library

Date:

1852

Description:

Miners sluicing at head of Auburn Ravine. Daguerrotype from the DMG
Collection on permanent loan to the California State Library.

Photo ID:

A4322

Mine:

Rocky Bar or Estey

County:

Placer

Photographer/Source:

Unknown

Date:

1915

Description:

Diver standing next to a woman and recovering gold from deep pools in
the bed of the North Fork of the American River, east of Colfax. This is an example of
placer mining.